Climate averages 1991–2020

Santiago de los Caballeros weather
in August.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 33.0°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 23.1°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 52 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Santiago de los Caballeros · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in Santiago de los Caballeros: daytime highs average 33.0°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 47 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is La Vega (31 km away). In August its highs average 31.7°C, 1.2°C cooler than Santiago de los Caballeros, with 50 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, Santiago de los Caballeros ranks 1st of 14 for the warmest August highs and 2nd of 14 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 14 cities is 30.7°C; Santiago de los Caballeros is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 32.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 81 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Santiago de los Caballeros climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Santiago de los Caballeros, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 27.5°C19.1°C19.1°C377.611.111 h
February 28.2°C19.2°C19.2°C347.011.511 h
March 29.1°C19.4°C19.4°C489.112.012 h
April 30.0°C20.5°C20.5°C7212.412.613 h
May 30.8°C21.5°C21.5°C9916.813.013 h
June 32.4°C22.5°C22.5°C4911.113.313 h
July 32.7°C23.0°C23.0°C339.413.213 h
August, selected 33.0°C23.1°C23.1°C5210.812.813 h
September 32.5°C22.6°C22.6°C8114.712.312 h
October 31.1°C22.0°C22.0°C8115.111.712 h
November 28.8°C20.9°C20.9°C6412.811.211 h
December 27.8°C19.7°C19.7°C377.811.011 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

August in nearby cities

Distance from Santiago de los Caballeros

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Santiago de los Caballeros) is explained once on the Santiago de los Caballeros year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.